THE problematic Norkem Park Transfer Station is currently run as an illegal dumping site and the City of Ekurhuleni should, as a matter of urgency, enforce the correct by-laws.
Ward councillor Jaco Terblanche demanded that the metro enforce the city’s by-laws as a matter of priority and urgency to ensure that only garden refuse is dumped at the site.
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Terblanche reacted after studying the Public Protector’s Report about the transfer station which was issued in September last year.
“The DA in Ekurhuleni supports the Public Protector’s report dated September 13, 2016 which pertains to an investigation of the operation of an illegal dumping site in Norkem Park. According to the report, the Public Reporter’s findings were that the area is a transfer station and not a dumping site. The said transfer station was created in terms of the by-law and its purpose is for residents to deliver garden refuse only ,” Terblanche said in a statement.
The metro should therefore make sure only garden refuse is dumped at the site.
The Public Protector’s report stated the following:
1. The area is not a dumping site but a transfer station. The said transfer station was created in terms of the by-law and its purpose is for residents to deliver garden refuse. The municipality will then deliver the said refuse at the dumping site. However, residents deliver things that are not garden refuse.
2. The municipality undertook to procure alternative land outside the residential area that will be used as a transfer station. The municipality was supposed to report to the Public Protector about the progress in the procurement of the said land and submit an action plan on the relocation of the transfer station. However, this was not done.
3. The issue of people loitering around the transfer station was not investigated because it was not linked to any conduct by the municipality.
